Keeping political and criminal responsibility separate

Amendment No. 7 | Doc. 13214 | 27 June 2013

Signatories:

Mr Luca VOLONTÈ, Italy, EPP/CD ; Mr Pedro AGRAMUNT, Spain, EPP/CD ; Mr Volodymyr ARIEV, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Mr Viorel Riceard BADEA, Romania, EPP/CD ; Mr Robert BIEDROŃ, Poland, SOC ; Mr Márton BRAUN, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Otto CHALOUPKA, Czech Republic, EDG ; Ms Katalin CSÖBÖR, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Roel DESEYN, Belgium, EPP/CD ; Mr Arcadio DÍAZ TEJERA, Spain, SOC ; Mr Peter van DIJK, Netherlands, NR ; Mr Axel E. FISCHER, Germany, EPP/CD ; Mr Erich Georg FRITZ, Germany, EPP/CD ; Mr Valeriu GHILETCHI, Republic of Moldova, EPP/CD ; Ms Sylvi GRAHAM, Norway, EPP/CD ; Mr Gergely GULYÁS, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Ms Ana GUŢU, Republic of Moldova, ALDE ; Mr Andrzej HALICKI, Poland, EPP/CD ; Mr Péter HOPPÁL, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Joachim HÖRSTER, Germany, EPP/CD ; Mr Giorgi KANDELAKI, Georgia, EPP/CD ; Mr László KOSZORÚS, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Marek KRZĄKAŁA, Poland, EPP/CD ; Sir Edward LEIGH, United Kingdom, EDG ; Ms Orinta LEIPUTĖ, Lithuania, SOC ; Mr Terry LEYDEN, Ireland, ALDE ; Ms Inese LĪBIŅA-EGNERE, Latvia, EPP/CD ; Mr Thierry MARIANI, France, EPP/CD ; Mr José MENDES BOTA, Portugal, EPP/CD ; Mr João Bosco MOTA AMARAL, Portugal, EPP/CD ; Mr Gábor Tamás NAGY, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Robert NEILL, United Kingdom, EDG ; Ms Marietta de POURBAIX-LUNDIN, Sweden, EPP/CD ; Mr Cezar Florin PREDA, Romania, EPP/CD ; Ms Carmen QUINTANILLA, Spain, EPP/CD ; Mr Kimmo SASI, Finland, EPP/CD ; Ms Ingjerd SCHOU, Norway, EPP/CD ; Mr Serhiy SOBOLEV, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Mr Imre VEJKEY, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Ms Anne-Mari VIROLAINEN, Finland, EPP/CD ; Mr Robert WALTER, United Kingdom, EDG ; Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD

Origin

2013 - Third part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 5.3, insert the following paragraph:

"urges the Georgian authorities to take specific measures to ensure the effective independence of the judiciary and in this respect regrets the repeated verbal attacks by the Minister of Justice on individual judges who refuse the prosecutor's office requests. The Minister of Justice should refrain from attacking judges' personalities or decisions. The Assembly also calls upon the Government of Georgia to comply with the opinion of the Venice Commission on its initiative to set up a commission on miscarriage of justice.